I am curious about the easement. Who will own the easement and the primary? And who will service it in the future.
IF the electric company will OWN and MAINTAIN it....But only require you do give them access to install wire.....(set poles or do conduit underground) that is understandable.
I knwo everywhere is different....but I dont know ANYONE with residential electric that owns ANY primary let alone any residential electricians even qualified to work on it.
I just did a ~$750' service install for a old friend. The electric company required that he burry 3' conduit at least 36" deep and with a pull string. He rented a mini-ex as this was going through a woods and the concerns with a trencher and tree-roots.
He had $1000 in the machine + paying me to operate it and I had the 750' dug in about 5 hours. Then gluing pipe while pulling string as we went and tossed it in and covered it up. A full days work. I think he got the 10' sticks of pipe for $55'ea. So $5.50/ft or so.
So he ended up with ~$4200 in pipe for a total of $5200.
The electric company will come back and tie in their lines, set transformer, and pull wire.
All electric companies are different.....this one gives him a $5000 "credit" towards new installs. So the cost of the wire + cost of the transformer minus the $5k is what he pays. I think his estimate was ~$2500 for the transformer and like $3.50/ft for the wire. So he should owe very little to them but had to spend the $5200 for the digging and conduit.
And this "easement" is now owned by the electric company. And any future issues with what is burried is THEIR responsibility to fix.